August 21, 2011 Meeting

   1 Aug 21 19:05:58 *	Now talking on #sfd-marketing
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   5 Aug 21 22:03:37 <BLUG_Fred>	well.. here.. less people
   6 Aug 21 22:05:38 <BLUG_Fred>	i already created the meeting notes page
   7 Aug 21 22:05:44 <BLUG_Fred>	http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/MarketingCommittee/mm/2011-08-21
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   9 Aug 21 22:08:29 <bckurera>	r we starting?
  10 Aug 21 22:08:57 <BLUG_Fred>	ok then
  11 Aug 21 22:09:11 <BLUG_Fred>	Pockey is logged on her phone. pc is having problems
  12 Aug 21 22:09:21 <BLUG_Fred>	so today's agenda: 
  13 Aug 21 22:09:23 <bckurera>	good
  14 Aug 21 22:09:28 <BLUG_Fred>	    Past action items
  15 Aug 21 22:09:28 <BLUG_Fred>	    Monday's announcement content
  16 Aug 21 22:09:28 <BLUG_Fred>	    Creating a series of 'event templates' which team leaders can use as a 
  17 Aug 21 22:09:28 <BLUG_Fred>	guide to make their own events, as well as build/upload slides easily reusable.
  18 Aug 21 22:09:28 <BLUG_Fred>	    Open discussion 
  19 Aug 21 22:09:32 <Pockey>	hi all
  20 Aug 21 22:09:37 <bckurera>	as usual I ll be the reporter
  21 Aug 21 22:09:45 <BLUG_Fred>	ok sounds good
  22 Aug 21 22:09:48 <bckurera>	any objections?
  23 Aug 21 22:09:56 <BLUG_Fred>	none
  24 Aug 21 22:10:01 <BLUG_Fred>	the page is all yours
  25 Aug 21 22:10:02 <bckurera>	:D
  26 Aug 21 22:10:09 <BLUG_Fred>	so 1st topic: review of past items
  27 Aug 21 22:10:14 <bckurera>	Hello All Welcome
  28 Aug 21 22:10:35 <BLUG_Fred>	I took the 4 items from last meeting, that's a start
  29 Aug 21 22:10:36 <BLUG_Fred>	need to grab the source files, translated, export to png and then export those png under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/si
  30 Aug 21 22:10:36 <BLUG_Fred>	send a intro/announcement to verow to spam ALL the list she has access to
  31 Aug 21 22:10:36 <BLUG_Fred>	Email the Russian SFD team to ask for Russian blogs addresses
  32 Aug 21 22:10:36 <BLUG_Fred>	need to grab the source files, translated, export to png and then export those png under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/ru
  33 Aug 21 22:10:50 <BLUG_Fred>	1, 3 and 4 are done
  34 Aug 21 22:11:02 <BLUG_Fred>	2 should be kept for next week
  35 Aug 21 22:11:32 <BLUG_Fred>	another AI should be to gather all past AI which haven't been done and put them on the next agenda to check for completion 
  36 Aug 21 22:11:37 <BLUG_Fred>	I can do that
  37 Aug 21 22:11:48 <BLUG_Fred>	so AI to Fred:  gather all past AI which haven't been done and put them on the next agenda to check for completion
  38 Aug 21 22:12:10 <BLUG_Fred>	verow: sorry we started a bit late
  39 Aug 21 22:12:33 <BLUG_Fred>	next topic: Monday's announcement content 
  40 Aug 21 22:12:39 <BLUG_Fred>	so we're 4 weeks away from SFD
  41 Aug 21 22:12:50 <BLUG_Fred>	we have 277 teams on the map and 305 on the wiki
  42 Aug 21 22:13:03 <BLUG_Fred>	there are a few topics we need to communicate about
  43 Aug 21 22:13:12 <BLUG_Fred>	as packages are starting to arrive
  44 Aug 21 22:13:26 <BLUG_Fred>	we have confirmed the CD Notice
  45 Aug 21 22:13:35 <BLUG_Fred>	I updated both the wiki page and the template
  46 Aug 21 22:13:43 <verow>	BLUG_Fred I'm already on a meeting for a French asso :/
  47 Aug 21 22:13:47 <BLUG_Fred>	i mean the form to be printed for teams
  48 Aug 21 22:13:55 <BLUG_Fred>	verow: ah ok. sorry
  49 Aug 21 22:14:27 <bckurera>	noted 1 AI
  50 Aug 21 22:14:28 <BLUG_Fred>	the idea of the announcement is to provide help and directions to team 
  51 Aug 21 22:14:46 <BLUG_Fred>	so i am trying to keep that one short but... we have all this to talk about:
  52 Aug 21 22:14:55 <BLUG_Fred>	Cdnotice
  53 Aug 21 22:15:10 <BLUG_Fred>	countdown availability (9 languages and make your own)
  54 Aug 21 22:15:24 <BLUG_Fred>	update your team wiki page
  55 Aug 21 22:15:45 <BLUG_Fred>	resources location in the wiki for event preparation 
  56 Aug 21 22:16:00 <BLUG_Fred>	(logo, slides, videos, etc)
  57 Aug 21 22:16:15 <BLUG_Fred>	sponsors/supporters announcement
  58 Aug 21 22:16:40 <BLUG_Fred>	work on translating the website and multi-lingual planets
  59 Aug 21 22:16:58 <BLUG_Fred>	mailing list subscription recommendation + languages availability 
  60 Aug 21 22:17:13 <BLUG_Fred>	that's 8 topics
  61 Aug 21 22:17:24 <BLUG_Fred>	i wrote about half already
  62 Aug 21 22:17:49 <BLUG_Fred>	and i plan to send to announce, sfd-discuss and all emails registered on the wiki (that's about 1000 addresses)
  63 Aug 21 22:17:59 <bckurera>	moving fast :)
  64 Aug 21 22:18:07 <BLUG_Fred>	does anyone see anything else to add?
  65 Aug 21 22:18:13 <BLUG_Fred>	(while keepting it short ;-) )
  66 Aug 21 22:18:32 <bckurera>	any info about ubuntu CDs
  67 Aug 21 22:18:37 <BLUG_Fred>	i will also make a blog post about it
  68 Aug 21 22:18:40 <bckurera>	or when they arrive?
  69 Aug 21 22:18:44 <BLUG_Fred>	bckurera: this is unrelated
  70 Aug 21 22:18:54 <BLUG_Fred>	bckurera: be patient... learn to wait
  71 Aug 21 22:19:14 <bckurera>	need to plan that is why asked
  72 Aug 21 22:19:18 <bckurera>	wanyway it is ok :)
  73 Aug 21 22:19:23 <bckurera>	i ll wait
  74 Aug 21 22:19:34 <BLUG_Fred>	we have an open discussion topic eventually
  75 Aug 21 22:21:52 <BLUG_Fred>	so i suppose nothing else to add to the announcement?
  76 Aug 21 22:22:07 <BLUG_Fred>	next topic
  77 Aug 21 22:22:08 <BLUG_Fred>	Creating a series of 'event templates' which team leaders can use as a guide to make their own events, as well as build/upload slides easily reusable. 
  78 Aug 21 22:22:22 <BLUG_Fred>	funnily we had a request today on sfd-discuss
  79 Aug 21 22:22:43 <BLUG_Fred>	so i have at least one presentation for keynote "why software freedom matters"
  80 Aug 21 22:22:58 <BLUG_Fred>	i'm reviewing it with the FSF and FSFE
  81 Aug 21 22:23:09 <BLUG_Fred>	i got Richard's comment back, not much extra stuff
  82 Aug 21 22:23:27 <BLUG_Fred>	it would have been nice to be more to discuss this
  83 Aug 21 22:23:41 <BLUG_Fred>	i think we should move the discussion to the mailing list to get something done
  84 Aug 21 22:23:54 <Pockey>	great
  85 Aug 21 22:23:59 <BLUG_Fred>	AI to Fred: start the discussion about this topic on marketing list
  86 Aug 21 22:24:10 <BLUG_Fred>	and now we're at open discussion
  87 Aug 21 22:24:29 <BLUG_Fred>	bckurera: so no we don't have any news about the CDs, but we are 4 weeks away from the day
  88 Aug 21 22:24:41 <BLUG_Fred>	Canonical uses TNT that's all I know
  89 Aug 21 22:24:53 <BLUG_Fred>	in previous year I usually notice the CD arriving very fast
  90 Aug 21 22:25:01 <BLUG_Fred>	starting to arrive very fast
  91 Aug 21 22:25:15 <BLUG_Fred>	it seems slightly slower this year
  92 Aug 21 22:25:49 <bckurera>	ok 27 days left
  93 Aug 21 22:26:10 <bckurera>	add 2 AIs :)
  94 Aug 21 22:26:15 <BLUG_Fred>	also emails about team pack arriving should be sent to sfd-discuss ;-)
  95 Aug 21 22:28:54 <bckurera>	anymore, nice to see some quick meetings :S
  96 Aug 21 22:29:16 <BLUG_Fred>	nope
  97 Aug 21 22:29:39 <BLUG_Fred>	so meeting is over
  98 Aug 21 22:29:41 <bckurera>	pocky any update on event judges
  99 Aug 21 22:29:47 <bckurera>	i mean the panel?
 100 Aug 21 22:29:49 <BLUG_Fred>	ah..
 101 Aug 21 22:30:00 <BLUG_Fred>	no.. we need to move the AI to next week
 102 Aug 21 22:30:15 <Pockey>	i need to draft an email
 103 Aug 21 22:30:35 <bckurera>	ok shall I add it as a n AI pockey?
 104 Aug 21 22:30:41 <Pockey>	yep
 105 Aug 21 22:30:48 *	pockeylam (~pockeylam@119.121.75.237) has joined #sfd-marketing
 106 Aug 21 22:31:02 <BLUG_Fred>	we have 2 pockeys now! 
 107 Aug 21 22:31:05 <BLUG_Fred>	:-/
 108 Aug 21 22:31:19 <bckurera>	great to have 2 instead one :)
 109 Aug 21 22:31:30 <pockeylam>	i will need to follow up on the voting committee thing
 110 Aug 21 22:31:42 <BLUG_Fred>	i just emailed sfd-discuss to summarize the team pack arrivals status
 111 Aug 21 22:31:44 <pockeylam>	bckurera, please add it as AI
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 113 Aug 21 22:32:14 <bckurera>	pockeylam : draft an email about SFD event panel
 114 Aug 21 22:32:14 <BLUG_Fred>	so any other thing to cover?
 115 Aug 21 22:32:18 <bckurera>	right?
 116 Aug 21 22:33:02 <pockeylam>	bckurera, it's about competition committee
 117 Aug 21 22:33:36 <bckurera>	BLUG_Fred I hope we are at the last milestones for the SFD 2011 :)
 118 Aug 21 22:33:47 <BLUG_Fred>	bckurera: what do you mean?
 119 Aug 21 22:34:05 <bckurera>	seems like local communities are so excited and interesting about SFD
 120 Aug 21 22:34:08 <pockeylam>	bckurera, we should send emails to individuals to invite them to join us
 121 Aug 21 22:34:29 <bckurera>	yup I have spread the news locally
 122 Aug 21 22:34:30 <pockeylam>	bckurera, how about that?
 123 Aug 21 22:34:37 <pockeylam>	bckurera, who do you have in mind?
 124 Aug 21 22:35:02 <bckurera>	pockeylam you mean the competition panel?
 125 Aug 21 22:35:03 <BLUG_Fred>	bckurera: that's cool. media communication is something we need to improve on
 126 Aug 21 22:35:21 <pockeylam>	bckurera, yes, let's call it competition committee :)
 127 Aug 21 22:35:21 <bckurera>	I am in touch with national news papers
 128 Aug 21 22:35:25 <BLUG_Fred>	wow
 129 Aug 21 22:35:32 <bckurera>	try my best to promote some breif news on SFD
 130 Aug 21 22:35:34 <bckurera>	events
 131 Aug 21 22:35:44 <pockeylam>	bckurera, nice!
 132 Aug 21 22:35:59 <bckurera>	competition committee my plan is to email and check other FOSS projects ppl
 133 Aug 21 22:36:29 <bckurera>	if we can get a representative each from the projects that would be nice
 134 Aug 21 22:36:38 <bckurera>	if possible we can invite sponsors as well
 135 Aug 21 22:36:55 <BLUG_Fred>	our sponsors won't have time I believe
 136 Aug 21 22:37:05 <pockeylam>	but we can ask :)
 137 Aug 21 22:37:07 <BLUG_Fred>	(I tried)
 138 Aug 21 22:37:25 <bckurera>	ahh then no use (if asked)
 139 Aug 21 22:37:31 <pockeylam>	ok then
 140 Aug 21 22:37:35 <bckurera>	so we can turn in to other FOSS projects
 141 Aug 21 22:37:46 <BLUG_Fred>	i could ask the FSFE eventually
 142 Aug 21 22:37:58 <pockeylam>	bckurera, if you have someones in mind, u can try to talk to them if they want to join the committee and be the judge
 143 Aug 21 22:38:17 <bckurera>	that is the best way to promote SFD
 144 Aug 21 22:38:40 <bckurera>	pockelam after you compose the email I ll attach it and try to find ppl
 145 Aug 21 22:38:52 <bckurera>	is it oks pockeylam ?
 146 Aug 21 22:39:44 <pockeylam>	bckurera, no problem, remind me again... by sending out the AIs :)
 147 Aug 21 22:40:11 <bckurera>	I ll contact you regarding this in this week to you
 148 Aug 21 22:40:19 <bckurera>	I ll try with contacts I have
 149 Aug 21 22:40:26 <bckurera>	so far we have 3 I think
 150 Aug 21 22:40:38 <bckurera>	we can seek another 7?
 151 Aug 21 22:42:39 <BLUG_Fred>	bckurera: we have the whole SFI board, that's already 5
 152 Aug 21 22:43:47 <bckurera>	ahh sorry I forgot that
 153 Aug 21 22:43:54 <bckurera>	what is the amount then?
 154 Aug 21 22:44:03 <bckurera>	I hope no limit :)
 155 Aug 21 22:44:11 <BLUG_Fred>	well 10 is probably a good number
 156 Aug 21 22:45:34 <bckurera>	ok then will try to find around 5
 157 Aug 21 22:45:47 <BLUG_Fred>	thank you for the help
 158 Aug 21 22:46:19 <bckurera>	thanks for the thank Fred ; anyway no need to thanks we are a part of SFD :)
 159 Aug 21 22:46:31 <bckurera>	so helping this is our duty I think
 160 Aug 21 22:47:16 <bckurera>	ok then pockeylam draft the email and send me , I ll bother you till you finish it ;)
 161 Aug 21 22:47:44 <bckurera>	I am sure finding 5 experienced ppl is not a BIG issue
 162 Aug 21 22:47:55 <BLUG_Fred>	ok..
 163 Aug 21 22:48:14 <bckurera>	Fred shall I add you an AI <BLUG_Fred> i could ask the FSFE eventually
 164 Aug 21 22:48:27 <BLUG_Fred>	bckurera: ok
 165 Aug 21 22:51:52 <bckurera>	AI for me   * Bckurera : contact potential people/ projects about the contribution for SFD Competition Committee
 166 Aug 21 22:54:54 <BLUG_Fred>	ok.. so anything else?
 167 Aug 21 22:55:58 <bckurera>	I m done
 168 Aug 21 22:56:07 <pockeylam>	bckurera, please do :)
 169 Aug 21 22:56:17 <BLUG_Fred>	ok.. so meeting is *really* over this time
 170 Aug 21 22:56:21 <pockeylam>	nothing from me
 171 Aug 21 22:56:24 <bckurera>	nice i ll do it
 172 Aug 21 22:56:26 <pockeylam>	thanks!
 173 Aug 21 22:56:29 <BLUG_Fred>	thanks for your time and sorry for the late notice
 174 Aug 21 22:56:44 <pockeylam>	have a nice day!
 175 Aug 21 22:56:56 <pockeylam>	i off to bed now, bye!
 176 Aug 21 22:56:57 <bckurera>	we are having another on next Sunday
 177 Aug 21 22:57:00 <bckurera>	am I right?
 178 Aug 21 22:57:03 <BLUG_Fred>	yes
 179 Aug 21 22:57:03 <pockeylam>	bckurera, yes
 180 Aug 21 22:57:05 <BLUG_Fred>	sure
 181 Aug 21 22:57:13 <bckurera>	good
 182 Aug 21 22:57:15 <pockeylam>	weekly meeting until sfd :)
 183 Aug 21 22:57:27 <bckurera>	will try our best to make the SFD a wonder :)
 184 Aug 21 22:57:44 <pockeylam>	bckurera, cool!
 185 Aug 21 22:58:25 <BLUG_Fred>	i 'll upload the log as usual
 186 Aug 21 22:58:56 <bckurera>	thanks Fred I cannot do it that nicely :)
 187 Aug 21 22:59:13 <bckurera>	http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/MarketingCommittee/mm/2011-08-21
 188 Aug 21 22:59:14 <bckurera>	MM are up and done